Seems like this should have been a big episode. But it really wasn't super surprising. I don't think anyone really thought Stinger was a traitor, so the revelation that he's just a spy came out fairly flat.

At the same time, they brushed aside the interesting story bits. Like a focus story on Stinger and his brother would have been much more interesting than watching this episode. Or at least let Stinger explain to Champ why he (probably) wasn't the one who killed Anton. I'm guessing at this point it was his brother who did it?

Also, 9 people fighting at once is pretty boring. A lot happens, but it's pretty hard to make the individual moments stand out. I also didn't like how the KyuuRangers fell into plot love with Earth. Overall, I just couldn't really get into this episode.

I'm hoping Kubota doesn't go through what Kohei Murakami went through with Jyuohger's use for Bard. Him playing the Cain after being Abel in Gaim would be sweet.

And yeah, frak Lucky. I now take kombucha shots whenever he uses his catchphrase and it could be upgraded if he gets worse. Get your act together, production crew, STOP giving Lucky everything.

A departing Wrassler neighbor loved Kamen Rider Dragon Knight. While the show's stuntwork was impressive, I told him there are better KR series, with implications to broaden his horizons beyond Toei Tokusatsu.

Stinger's plot with his brother could be interesting, if it doesn't have to compete with the other plot threads running around this show. As I suspected, a nine member team isn't working out very well for me. It worked for Kyoryuger because they didn't use all ten very often. Why do I get the impression this show is oversaturated with characters?

It bothers me that Champ just brushes his objections about Stinger off to the side because plot. It makes it look like his desire to kill Stinger just a few episodes ago was shallow at best.

Next episode:

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Oh, yay, we're going with a power up on episode 6. Way to repeat the mistakes of Ex-Aid guys.

So are we going to get an Itachi/Sasuke with Scorpio/Stinger? Or could we have Scorpio be the real spy and Stinger turn out to be a double agent.
It'd just be nice to have Yuki on a fighting team again, kind of.
Ah well, sad the Stinger thing was resolved quickly, feel like they could have stretched out the nine ranger acquisition as well, but here we go.
How will things develop as they start with Earth?

BTW I'm sorry about the previous episodes I said, I guess Stinger is not an A-hole after all (because he's a spy)
Takatora(Batta) is here, hopefully they'll meet him again. I felt he's a villain were an older brother betrayed his youger brother (as opposed of Micchy betrayed Takatora)

Like I said before, about the Kyuulette they will deploy a 5-man team formation. Basically, TOEI did an experiments on a different 5-man team in each episodes for future series. Also, recalls for a 5-man team of the previous series. (Red is always on a team)

While I've enjoyed these past 5 episodes, they could've easily been extended to 10-12 episodes. This episode alone deserved to be a two parter for the grand payoff. I love the characters and all but can we slow down the pace? Super Sentai usually doesn't have that much going on that they need to speed up the pace like this. I can understand Kamen Rider (to a degree) but I'm feeling like I have to watch each episode twice to make sure I'm not missing something. If the pacing would slow down, each episode so far would be a 5 instead of a 4 for me.

Hey Take or whoever batches this stuff, the torrent for the 720 version didn't include the Henshin Lesson. Was that intentional?

Does anyone else think this episode was kind of... irresponsible?

The little kids throw rocks at people and put themselves in danger, and what does our dumbass red do? Does he tell them to leave the fighting to them? No, he encourages them! It wasn't until after they'd been freed, after they'd almost been killed, that anyone told them to run along. Jark Matter are the bad guys and the idea here is that these kids are the only ones standing up to them (and before the Kyuuranger arrived, there was no one that they could turn to), I get it, but that's imitable behavior. I don't care if their actions had consequences, nobody at any point called them on it. If I were a parent watching this, I'd be pretty pissed.

So far, this has been one of those shows that really makes me wonder how the PR adaptation will go. It used to be that they couldn't skip a season, but as we saw with Go-Busters and ToQger, that option is on the table now. Mainly, I'll be interested to see if they do all these non-human(oid) rangers. There's really no reason that they have to, in particular, I think they'll drop Raptor in favor of a regular actress.

Not bad but very clichéd with Stinger. I hate the whole the evil member was a spy all along and that they were after some crucial information. I know that in order to find out the inner workings of an evil organization you have join them, but there comes a point where the bad guys smell a rate and will figure out how to turn them into their fully obedient puppet. I'm working on something where the protagonist meets someone who fell into darkness because they got in too deep to realize that they had already lost because the power of evil was too much to shut out.

As for the idea of Earth's big secret, cosmic beings from another dimension have cursed Earth to be the battleground for epic heroes in stranger outfits. Why do they do this? It's because we like it.

njb wrote:Maaaan, Shou Ronpou is sooo dumb. How did you forget that *that* guy was your spy!?

The mecha fights (which featured two combinations) were fun for this ep.

Why does Lucky say that they'll start the fight against Jark Matter on Earth? Does that mean their fights in other planets in the previous episodes did not result in their liberation?

They were not actively targeting JarkMatterin other planets until all 9 are gathered. It was said in every episode that they need all 9 to fight against Jark Matter. This isfirst time they gathered all nine in one place so Lucky said they wills tart with earth. For Shou Ronpou it is probably heis deliberatively trying to be stupid guy to hide he is emperor......... or something more important future will tell us.

It was a good episode for me I am just having too much theories for futureto uphold at the moment like how Big bro super hero can be added to mix will it be a second Basco or will it be a second kyoryu-father or will he be a second to none we will see